The Bearcats welcome in six freshmen this year, giving the team 11 underclassmen (along with two juniors and two seniors).

But now BU has 13 players Dempsey recruited himself. It's the roster he's molded. Now, players and coach agree, it's time for a culture change in Vestal.

"We want to change it pretty bad. That's all we talk about," said Wilfredo Rodriguez, a freshman forward from Orlando, FL. "Personally, that's why I committed here. I wanted to start something new, start a new tradition: a winning tradition."

Dempsey said now that he's had three years to recruit his own flavor of players, it's time to look forward.

"We spent a lot of time in the first couple of years trying to build this roster. This is the group we've brought here to help us turn the program around," he said. "I think they feel ownership of the program right now, even though they're young, because they came here to help us build a winner."

The path to building a winner continues Nov. 14 when BU visits Notre Dame.